Medical Question and Answer Book by Reader's Digest - 1989

In good condition - has price sticker of 29 cents on front cover - has markings from use -due to differing weights of books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When war with Germany was declared in August, 1914, few people believed that it would last longer than December. Few people doubted that Britain would not be able to crush the aggressor by Christmas, so that for the first few months at least, the British people were able to look ahead to the aftermath of victory. But soon the harsh truth became known. For five long years, in summer and in winter, the dreadful reality of war in the trenches struck home. Amidst the carnage and the slaughter, suffocated by the acrid smell of cordite, men fought and won, battling not only against an enemy but also against the appalling shambles that was THE WESTERN FRONT 1914-1918.

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In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Plants can be flamboyant and voluptuous, funny and frivolous, even shy and retiring, but do they really have personalities? They most certainly do, according to plantswoman Carol Klein, who has been growing, propagating and showing plants for more than thirty years. In Plant Personalities, she demonstrates how understanding their needs and giving them the best conditions in which to thrive enables plants to develop their true characters - the qualities that make them what they are - or who they are.Personality traits are as valueable as height, habit and flower colour when choosing which plants to grow and how to grow them. Good-natured, bread-and-butter plants contribute to the overall picture for months, while others are fleeting, shooting to stardom for a brief but breathtaking performance. Wafty whisperers add a touch of frivolity, bringing rustling rhythms to beds and borders.… Read More

In very good condition - has slight markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In this authorised biography, the boy from Wellington's Pukerua Bay reveals how be beat Hollywood at its own game. It is a story of passion, single-minded determination, and, above all, an artistic vision and a sense of dramatic scale.Through Jackson's eyes and own words, as well as re-tellings and memories of friends, family and associates, we are shown how the director's early life - with its obsessively pursued hobbies and first childhood attempts at film-making - were effectively one big audition for The Lord of the Rings and King Kong.The book explores the Academy Award-winning success of Heavenly Creatures, the first abandoned King Kong re-make, then the triumphant filming of The Lord of the Rings - a project that was abandoned two years into pre-production, rejected by most studios, and then picked up by New Line Cinema in the biggest gamble in film history. It takes us… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The popular concept of Toulouse-Lautrec as an emotionally insecure, physically deformed aristocrat living a reckless bohemian existence in fin-de-siècle Paris is enshrined in John Huston's classic movie Moulin Rouge. The publicity for this described Lautrec as a 'gifted painter and tortured soul.' Major exhibitions in Chicago in 1979 and London in 1991/2, however have suggested that the interpretation of Lautrec's work as that of artist as victim is an over-simplification. The critic Robert Hughes has acclaimed his 'precocious modernity' and argued that his 'caustic and tender view of the world speaks directly to our culture of narcissistic display.'Frank Milner's richly illustrated and penetrating study focuses not only on the Montmartre cabaret life Lautrec portrayed so brilliantly in his witty and elegant graphics, but also on his claim to a place in the history of avant-garde painting… Read More

In good condition - has price sticker of 29 cents on front cover - has markings from use -due to differing weights of books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When war with Germany was declared in August, 1914, few people believed that it would last longer than December. Few people doubted that Britain would not be able to crush the aggressor by Christmas, so that for the first few months at least, the British people were able to look ahead to the aftermath of victory. But soon the harsh truth became known. For five long years, in summer and in winter, the dreadful reality of war in the trenches struck home. Amidst the carnage and the slaughter, suffocated by the acrid smell of cordite, men fought and won, battling not only against an enemy but also against the appalling shambles that was THE WESTERN FRONT 1914-1918.

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.

In very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Plants can be flamboyant and voluptuous, funny and frivolous, even shy and retiring, but do they really have personalities? They most certainly do, according to plantswoman Carol Klein, who has been growing, propagating and showing plants for more than thirty years. In Plant Personalities, she demonstrates how understanding their needs and giving them the best conditions in which to thrive enables plants to develop their true characters - the qualities that make them what they are - or who they are.Personality traits are as valueable as height, habit and flower colour when choosing which plants to grow and how to grow them. Good-natured, bread-and-butter plants contribute to the overall picture for months, while others are fleeting, shooting to stardom for a brief but breathtaking performance. Wafty whisperers add a touch of frivolity, bringing rustling rhythms to beds and borders.… Read More

In very good condition - has slight markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In this authorised biography, the boy from Wellington's Pukerua Bay reveals how be beat Hollywood at its own game. It is a story of passion, single-minded determination, and, above all, an artistic vision and a sense of dramatic scale.Through Jackson's eyes and own words, as well as re-tellings and memories of friends, family and associates, we are shown how the director's early life - with its obsessively pursued hobbies and first childhood attempts at film-making - were effectively one big audition for The Lord of the Rings and King Kong.The book explores the Academy Award-winning success of Heavenly Creatures, the first abandoned King Kong re-make, then the triumphant filming of The Lord of the Rings - a project that was abandoned two years into pre-production, rejected by most studios, and then picked up by New Line Cinema in the biggest gamble in film history. It takes us… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.The popular concept of Toulouse-Lautrec as an emotionally insecure, physically deformed aristocrat living a reckless bohemian existence in fin-de-siècle Paris is enshrined in John Huston's classic movie Moulin Rouge. The publicity for this described Lautrec as a 'gifted painter and tortured soul.' Major exhibitions in Chicago in 1979 and London in 1991/2, however have suggested that the interpretation of Lautrec's work as that of artist as victim is an over-simplification. The critic Robert Hughes has acclaimed his 'precocious modernity' and argued that his 'caustic and tender view of the world speaks directly to our culture of narcissistic display.'Frank Milner's richly illustrated and penetrating study focuses not only on the Montmartre cabaret life Lautrec portrayed so brilliantly in his witty and elegant graphics, but also on his claim to a place in the history of avant-garde painting… Read More